News

December 9, 2013

Public Safety offers free TigerSafe app at RIT

The student-created app allows campus users to connect with RIT Public Safety officers, turning any smartphone into a virtual blue light security phone.
November 22, 2013

Staff, alumni named to 40 Under 40 List

Four RIT alumni and one staff member were honored by the Rochester Business Journal this year for professional success and civic contributions in the local area.
November 19, 2013

RIT48 contest searches for the next big app idea

RIT48 returns Nov. 22–24 with 40 students competing for $3,000. They will create a business plan, produce a prototype and launch a Web or mobile startup in 48 hours.
November 18, 2013

M&T donates $50,000 to entrepreneurship center

M&T Bank is making a two-year commitment and donating $50,000 to the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship’s Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs program for city students.
November 18, 2013

Graduates pour hearts into Kosovo brewery

Alex Butler and Etida Zeka are introducing American-style craft beer to Kosovo. The graduates have opened a brewery, are bottling the beer and selling it to bars in Pristina.
November 14, 2013

Nosebleed remedy tops Tiger Tank competition

Gino Santaguida was awarded first prize and $2,000 in the Simone Center’s Tiger Tank competition for his product idea to stop nosebleeds.
November 13, 2013

Dean ogilvie to co-lead mayoral transition team

Saunders College of Business Dean dt ogilvie has been named one of two leaders of Rochester Mayor-Elect Lovely A. Warren’s transition team.
November 11, 2013

Teams pitch business ideas in Tiger Tank

Five student teams will present their business ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win a cash prize. Tiger Tank takes place Nov. 13 in Student Innovation Hall.
November 7, 2013

RIT to connect journalism and technology students

RIT is creating a Digital Journalism Incubator, a multidisciplinary program that combines technology, design and entrepreneurial skills, with help from the Knight Foundation.
October 24, 2013

Play explores hilarity of blind dating

A Q&A with Nick Giordano, a third-year management information systems and political science double major and director of Check, Please, a 30-minute, one-act play.
October 22, 2013

Entrepreneurship Center names program director

Ebony Miller will be responsible for research, development, delivery and assessment of programming at the Saunders College of Business Center for Urban Entrepreneurship.
October 10, 2013

Designer Scott Wilson headlines conference

Scott Wilson ’91, founder of Minimal Inc. and former global director at Nike, is the keynote speaker at the RIT Entrepreneurs Conference on Oct. 18.